Given name & surname
Welcome
“a welcome guest”
Welcome is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “a welcome guest.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “a welcome guest.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1911. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Welcome through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 170
- 147 boys · 23 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1941. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 146 as a first name in 2020; 2,162 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Welcome’s family of names
Welcome has a related form in Welcom. Welcome has a related form in Welcomme.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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